In Texas it is illegal to have sex with a fish, in Florida it is illegal to get a fish drunk, and N. Carolina thought both laws were good, so in NC it is illegal to have sex with a drunk fish.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in celcius degrees... How do they know that?

Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes. Eeewwwwww

Hydrogen is an explosive gas. Oxygen supports combustion. Yet when these are combined it is water which is used to put out fires.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

1 in every 200 people are a psychopath and they look just like everyone else...

Kent...remember a lot of porkers eventually wind up as bacon,porkchops,etc.Still want to be a FINE SWINE?Although I guess everything is relative.Still would beat the hell out of being a male praying mantis(Good Lord!)Kent...some of that stuff....have you been browsing worldsex.com,like "doors'?

My 'thanks' to Richard Ame, Seth, Selyer and bnix for adding their colorful tidbits and commentary to this silly thread.

I'll admit it: Some of the Animal Kingdom 'facts' in the original post are a bit on the 'racey' side, but when I first saw this info, my immediate reaction was: "Hey, I can use some of this stuff in class!" The one about the only animal that can't jump, for example, or the one about butterflies tasting with their feet. Who says teaching kids about animals is boring??

Dear bnix: Worldsex.com? HELL no! Too commercial for me. I surf the anonymous newsgroups with a proxy and a firewall.

There are 400 ways to say "stupid white guy" in Cantonese, which you learn when you go to a Hong Kong hospital with a dislocated shoulder and tongue burn and explain that you have been trying to lick your elbow.

There are 500 ways to say "You son of a dog, my whole family is disabled after me telling them about the stupid white guy who tried to lick his elbow and they all tried it", which I learned when going back for the splint and tongue dressing to be changed at a Hong Kong hospital.

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